The Dream Witch welcomes you back into her dark embrace and shows you one of her favorite dreams. You learn of her particular fondness for Locke Julian Papov. Locke has recently moved to Chicago after being chased out of Romania for what he thinks is an...outdated practice. While looking for a job, he meets Valentine Hale, the mute son of the gas station owner. While Locke settles in, he receives a phone call that his older brother Yael is alive. The problem with that is Locke is a six-thousand-year-old vampire. After clawing his way out of The Night of Dreaded Calamity, he's actually the progenitor of vampires. Following the lead that Yael may be alive, Locke chases deep into the tangle of threads that forced him into immortality with his favorite method--gratuitous violence.
